Fantastic Films--what're your favourite classics?

[matgb]

K, trying to break the block, finally got around to setting up fantastic_films, a blog community about the best of classic science fiction, fantasy and horror movies. The idea is to come up with ideas for showing at the annual Fantastic Films weekend, as the organiser is always open to new ideas.

Given that Ghostbusters is being shown on Fiver and I'm sitting through it in growing horror. I loved this film once. Am I being overly cynical?

Who you gonna call?

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[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not entirely sure I've ever seen Ghostbusters all the way through.

I was talking to a couple of my friends about classic sci-fi films a little while back. At least in terms of fairly high fantasy stuff, we could think of very little that's any good. There's almost nothing before the 1980s. There are Ray Harryhausen movies and Lord of the Rings, but the former is only really for the effects and the latter is unfinished.

[matgb]

"High Fantasy"?

By that are we talking about classic plot swords and sorcery, wizards apprentice, princesses, dark lords and castles?

Star Wars. 1977.

[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

Needs moar orcs.

[doccy]

Ooh, just remembered a couple of oldies I watched recently... "The Sword And The Sorcerer", and "Hawk The Slayer".

Hawk did pretty well at surviving, IMO, despite the whole all-the-characters-are-men-or-nuns-or-dead-girlfriend issue.

tS&tS didn't, even with a much larger female cast. It was pain, but I'm sure I'll try it again in case it was distorted by mood.

[matgb]

Haven't seen Hawk since I was a kid, and not sure I've seen the full version anyway, don't think I've ever seen TS&TS.